Without Free Speech No Search For Truth

Idle And Meaningless ... A Form Less Solemn To Me Than The Affirmation I Would Have Reverently Made.

If Special Honor Is Claimed For Any, Then Heresy Should Have It As The Truest Servitor Of Human Kind.

A Ground Frequently Taken By Christian Theologians Is That The Progress And Civilization Of The World Are Due To Christianity; And The Discussion Is Complicated By The Fact That Many Eminent Servants Of Humanity Have Been Nominal Christians, Of One Or Other Of The Sects. My Allegation Will Be That The Special Services Rendered To Human Progress By These Exceptional Men Have Not Been In Consequence Of Their Adhesion To Christianity, But In Spite Of It, And That The Specific Points Of Advantage To Human Kind Have Been In Ratio Of Their Direct Opposition To Precise Biblical Enactments.

Is It Not Gain To Have Diminished The Faith That It Was The Duty Of The Wretched And The Miserable To Be Content With The Lot In Life Which Providence Had Awarded Them?

Atheist, Without God, I Look To Humankind For Sympathy, For Love, For Hope, For Effort, For Aid.